The Supreme Government Chamber shows its « restlessness » for the legal reform of access to justice | Spain

The Supreme Court dome has shown its « concern » for the legal reform promoted by the Government on Tuesday The form of access to judicial careers. In an agreement adopted unanimously by the Government Chamber (composed of the president of the Supreme Court, the presidents of the five rooms and five magistrates chosen by their peers), reproaches the Executive who, instead of solving the lack of means that ensures that he suffers, drives a reform of access to the career that provides for changes in oppositions and an extraordinary process to stabilize substitute judges. « Access to the judiciary does not need special reforms but of support measures, such as scholarships, to prepare the selective process, » says the text of the agreement.

The pronouncement of the Government Chamber reaches less than 24 hours from the 10 -minute strike called for this Tuesday by all associations of judges and prosecutors, except the progressives, against the two reforms linked to the justice announced by the Government: that of the Organic Law of the Judiciary (LOPJ) that contemplates changes in the form of access to both careers andlto prepare the Fiscal Ministry for the law that leaves prosecutors the instruction of criminal cases.

The supreme dome is aligned with the words he pronounced The president of the organ, Isabel Perelló, Last January in the ceremony of offices to the last promotion of judges. « The current access model to the judicial career guarantees objectivity and transparency in the accreditation of professional suitability and sufficiency for the exercise of the jurisdictional function, » said the agreement signed by the entire Chamber, which assumes the « concern » shown in sectors of the judicial career for that legal reform: « It cannot be alien to the Supreme Court the extended concern that they have created because it has created because it has created with the conditions of Judge and execute the judgment on which you are called to pronounce ultimately. ”

The text signed by the 11 members of the Chamber will be sent to the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) with the request that it is sent from there to the Government and the Cortes. The high court dome coincides with the Executive on the need to increase the template of judges, but disagrees with the chosen formula. « The essential sustained creation of places to achieve this cannot do without rigor in the selection of those who are going to cover them (…) that is, that they are resolved only in accordance with criteria of merit and capacity in conditions of equality, such as those already existing, accredited by a long experience. »

The Supreme Also reproaches the Government that has not attended to its repeated demands for « the remuneration improvement of its lawyers » and other « efficient actions, which allow overcoming the serious deficiencies and deficiencies » that it suffers, « from the most elementary, including the conservation of its headquarters, to those related to the endowment of means, advanced and effective, in the technological level. » « These issues, numerous times indicated, are again ignored in this context of innovation in which the only forecast is the creation of a common processing service, to attend, precisely, with jobs worse paid than those of courts, hearings and superior courts of justice that maintain the autonomous communities, » says the text.